I live on a boat, which got washed away from its mooring in Yorkshire, along with about 8 other boats, during the Boxing Day floods, when the River Aire breeched into the canal navigation, just downstream from Leeds. And so we have been temporarily re-located until sufficient safety and maintenance works have been done on the canal length, so that we can return to our mooring.

You may be wondering what this has to do with disposable sanitary products .... Well read on and you will find out ....

So yesterday, we went to go and clean up our mooring, in preparation for returning after the Boxing Day flooding dramas.

While my Other Half shovelled sludge and mud, I did a litter pick up and down the mooring.

It is a sad looking state of affairs, as the whole length of the canal and river has litter caught in all of the trees and bushes at the level the flood waters reached.

And I would estimate that between 50 and 75%of this rubbish is made up of...